The essential :
In France, 215 people have died from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
A total of 48,732 people have died since the start of the pandemic.
There were two fewer patients in intensive care on Sunday evening compared to Saturday but 157 hospitalized patients.
Sign that the signs of recession are still fragile.
Emmanuel Macron must present a lightened confinement Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Find out here what the executive is up to.
> Follow the events of this Monday live:
7:47.
Danone will cut up to 2,000 administrative positions, including “400 to 500” in France.
The French agri-food giant, whose sales are battered by the Covid-19 pandemic, announces that it wants to cut up to 2,000 positions in its headquarters in France and abroad in order to "simplify" its organization and resume growth.
"In France, it will be 400 to 500 people", "mainly directors, managers", who will be affected by these job cuts, said Danone CEO Emmanuel Faber to AFP, confirming information from Le Monde.
7:33.
Virus: Toronto “contained”.
The largest city in Canada is subject as of Monday to "containment" in the face of the outbreak of the pandemic.
Toronto and much of its suburbs "will be placed in confinement" for at least 28 days from Monday at 12:01 am (6 am in France), announced Sunday the Premier of the province of Ontario, Doug Ford.
Any indoor private gathering will be prohibited under penalty of a fine, non-essential businesses closed, and restaurants will only be able to carry out take-out sales or home deliveries.
Religious services, funerals and weddings will be limited to ten people.
But the schools will remain open.
7:12.
Covid: 31% of communities without an anticipation tool in the face of containment.
Faced with the Covid-19 epidemic, 31% of local communities did not have any anticipation tool to deal with containment, according to a survey conducted by the Randstad group with Villes de France, the Assembly of Communities of France (AdCF) and the ANDRH of the territories, published this Monday.
Only 40% of local communities had an up-to-date backup plan, before the first containment, and 31% a business continuity plan, 22% a 60-day mask reserve and 8% 'a framework adapted to the extension of teleworking
And 31% did not have any of these elements, according to the survey, carried out online between July 17 and September 7.
6:50 a.m.
Tuesday is Defense Council.
As we revealed yesterday, a Defense Council must be held on Tuesday, a few hours before the intervention of Emmanuel Macron.
During this meeting, the final arbitrations on the containment alleviation plan will be made.
6:40 am.
Tests in around thirty secondary schools in Ile-de-France.
From today, a campaign of antigenic tests intended for staff and student volunteers is launched in around thirty establishments in Ile-de-France.
These operations must take place over several weeks.
6.30am.
Skiing in Matignon.
Jean Castex is holding a videoconference with elected officials and professional mountain organizations on the subject of ski resorts.
These still do not know when they will be allowed to open.
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6:20 am.
End of confinement in sight in England.
The British government has announced that the four-week lockdown in England will not be extended beyond December 2, when this British province will return to a system of local restrictions.
In the United Kingdom, the most bereaved country in Europe, each British province decides on its own strategy in the face of the health crisis.
6:10 am.
The first mink slaughtered in France.
The presence of Covid-19 was detected in a mink farm in Eure-et-Loir, the ministries of Agriculture, Health and Ecological Transition announced on Sunday.
"The slaughter of all 1,000 animals still present on the farm and the elimination of products from these animals" was ordered, they indicate in their press release.
6 hours.
The promise of the G 20.
The leaders of the G 20 promised on Sunday to "stop at any effort" to guarantee equitable access to vaccines against the Covid-19, according to the final declaration of a virtual summit with a resolutely consensual but poor tone in concrete details.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was "worried" about the slowness of discussions to provide the vaccine against Covid-19 to the poorest nations.
5:55 am.
Americans soon to be vaccinated.
The United States hopes to begin its vaccination campaign before mid-December, once it has obtained approval from health authorities, a senior official in the government vaccine operation said on Sunday.
Once this mass vaccination campaign is launched, the country can expect to achieve "herd immunity" in May, he added.
5h50.
Slight better.
The indicators tend to prove the thesis of a slight decrease in the circulation of Covid-19 in France.
According to Public Health France, the number of patients admitted to intensive care continues to drop.
And this for the sixth consecutive day.
171 new patients were admitted in 24 hours, against 220 the day before and 270 seven days ago.
In total, there are 4,491 severe cases, against 4,493 Saturdays and 4,896 Sundays last.
Note, however, that despite the drop in new hospitalizations, 31,522 hospital beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients this Sunday evening.
That's 157 more than the day before.
5:45 am.
Hello, it's Monday, let's go for a new day of Covid news.